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Originally Posted by Bigtime
Good point, and yet another question as to why did they continue on to London. I'm assuming AA Operations told them to do so?
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You know, when something like this happens, it can take some time to really grasp how ‘big’ the event was. Mistakes happen, and taxi errors are not unusual. There was no aircraft damaged, nobody was injured, and the ‘mission’ is to get the planeload of people to their destination. There was also likely uncertainty of whose fault it was. If the AA crew thought the controller had screwed up, then why wouldn’t they continue?
In hindsight we can look and say this was nearly catastrophic, why did they depart. But in the moment everyone involved is trying to process it….the crews of both planes, and the controllers.
The other crew that rejected may well have had the more dramatic experience. There are also issues with a (relatively) high speed reject that require some time to deal with (brake temperatures), so combined I can see why they were more likely to end up calling it a day after that.
But I think we can all relate to having a job to do, and even when something abnormal happens, we feel compelled to complete the original goal.